{"id":7670,"date":"2012-06-30T20:57:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2012-06-30T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T00:57:15","slug":"going-nowhere-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/going-nowhere-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Nowhere Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Damn, this is a fine album. Credited as “Stampfel & Weber \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Original Holy Modal Rounders”, it’s a 1981 Rounder release that’ll probably never see the light as a digital release. And that’s a crying shame.<\/p>\n

It packs a lot of tracks into one album. All of them fun, with the off-kilterness that happens so magically when these two play together.
\nSide 1:<\/p>\n

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  1. You’ve got the right String Baby, but the wrong Yo-yo<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as briefly featured on Laugh-In.<\/li>\n
  2. My Name is Morgan but it ain’t J. P.<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201dSteve Weber really has that parlour fingerpicking style nailed down.<\/li>\n
  3. Goin’ to Memphis<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Cash, murdered. Outstanding skreeky fiddle from Peter.<\/li>\n
  4. Goin’ to Memphis (reprise)<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201da little bit of caterwauling that was too good to throw out<\/li>\n
  5. Jeanine’s Dream<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201dthis is a lovely take on\u00c2\u00a0La Danseuse<\/a>, with words by Antonia. I know that Peter’s been obsessed with this tune for decades.<\/li>\n
  6. When the Iceworms nest again<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201dsupposedly traditionally Canadian.<\/li>\n
  7. If You’ll be my Girl<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201ddropped from their 1965(ish) album because it was original, this shows that S&W write some beautiful bubblegum pop.<\/li>\n
  8. Aeko<\/em><\/li>\n
  9. Lovin’ Mad Tom<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201dShakespeare via Antonia. Centuries old, still haunting us.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Side 2:<\/p>\n

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    1. Sea of Love<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Steve’s voice is great for this sappy love song.<\/li>\n
    2. Come to the Mardi Gras<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201das usual, Peter finds an old tune and makes it crazed.<\/li>\n
    3. Philadelphia Lawyer<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201da Woody Guthrie tune played almost<\/em> straight.<\/li>\n
    4. Are You from Dixie?<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201deven if I were, I’d deny it if faced with someone proclaiming it as dementedly as this.<\/li>\n
    5. Smokey Joe’s Caf\u00c3\u00a9<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201da slurfy, sloppy cover.<\/li>\n
    6. Goodbye to Booze<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201dThis, along with Coldest Woman<\/em>, was one of the two tracks from this album on\u00c2\u00a0I Make A Wish For A Potato<\/a>, which got me into this whole Holy Modal Rounder mess in the first place.<\/li>\n
    7. Junker’s Blues<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201dan unapologetic heroin user’s song.<\/li>\n
    8. Red Rooster<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201dplay this to clear the house. It sets the demented level up against the stops.<\/li>\n
    9. Coldest Woman<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201da daft little island tune with nicely swung guitar by Steve.<\/li>\n
    10. Dance in Slow Motion<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201danother sweet song with Peter singing.<\/li>\n
    11. Unnamed Rag<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201dThe only words on this Weber tune are “Unnamed Rag” (if you don’t count the stalwart “vo-dee-oh-dee”-ing from Peter) because he hadn’t thought of a name for it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      It must be about time for a fifth duo album from S&W; there was 15 years between this and HMR2<\/em>, and Too Much Fun<\/em> came 19 years after. I guess since there’s only been 14 years since that last album, I’m being a bit premature …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Damn, this is a fine album. Credited as “Stampfel & Weber \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The Original Holy Modal Rounders”, it’s a 1981 Rounder release that’ll probably never see the light as a digital release. And that’s a crying shame. It packs a lot of tracks into one album. All of them fun, with the off-kilterness that happens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[937,1063,2526],"class_list":["post-7670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","tag-holy_modal_rounders","tag-peter_stampfel","tag-steve_weber"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1ZI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7674,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7670\/revisions\/7674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}